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Hey, sounds great! He should do a little nickel bid and write about that next.

Maybe he could go undercover for 3 years with Idaho Nazis. That'd be a good read.

I'm mean...immersionist perspectives about the poor and hobos? Who wants to read that shit? We're already living it. Thanks for deigning to swoop down from the mountaintop to understand us, Vollmann.

You show up late to the party, don't expect refreshments.

Posted by Poor Hobo Warrior | February 4, 2008 11:24 AM
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Heh. Leave it to a SLOG commenter to leave a nasty comment about one of the greatest writers of his generation.

Posted by Ryan | February 4, 2008 11:50 AM
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Oh how we love to defend our heroes from the insulation of the cube.

"One of the greatest writers of his generation."

That worn out shoe fits anybody at the ball these days.

18 year old girls say that shit about DAvid Sedaris and Tom Robbins.

19 year old whiteboys say it about Zinn.

You Dad says it about Capote or Turkel.

Right now you probably have a sister-in-law or older cousin in Manhattan who still won't shut up about Salman Rushdie 20 years into the joke.

There's never a shortage of college dropouts who say it about Vonnegut.

Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo get lots of star treatment at the coffeemachine in The Times office.

Oprah Winfrey's got no shortage of Mitch Albom for that ass.

I guess it all depends on who you ask.

For a definitcve statement I offer that we ask Mudede what Proust and Hegel say on the matter. This is, after all still The Stranger's blog.

We'll let him bore us to sleep with indictments of narrative that dissolve into narrative and 500 words later we'll know whther or not William T. Vollman is better than Beverly Cleary.

Posted by Sorry If I Dissed Your Writer. Me And MY Dumb Opinions. | February 4, 2008 12:28 PM
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Uh, whatever. Vollmann is amazing, if you donīt read him, at least give him credit for being the most energetic and (quality) prolific writer since ever, and for being posessed of an astonishing memory (he recalled meeting both myself and my compaņero Dan Gildark after seven and ten years), and for his intelligence and mighty and wide-ranging wisdom and compassion, qualities (ahem) often lacking in the comments on this blog (see above).

If you think you have him covered, donīt forget to read The Royal Family. You wouldnīt think there was a great Sacramento Novel to be written, but there is, and there it is.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | February 4, 2008 1:30 PM
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You forgot that David Foster Wallace is more of a contemporary of Vollmann's than any of the writer's you name-dropped in your comment. I'm also so very impressed by your ability to drop Studs Turkel's name into a comment with Don DeLillo. That kind of pompous assbaggery just isn't seen around these parts anymore.

Anyway, as shitting on things seems to be your thing, I'll leave you to it. Enjoy!

Posted by Ryan | February 4, 2008 8:31 PM

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